Mod. Malaise

  

Old Chinaman at the Lavender stop in a not-so-new green tee with mainly large Chinese characters. Too many, far too many you would have thought for a translation of the English at his waist:

PROHIBIT ANXIETY

Perhaps the modern illness needed quite a bit of the old form to put properly.

Difficult task fully and immediately conceded by the man. And more strong agreement again at the suggestion that such a feat could possibly be pulled off precisely here in this Republic—A Fine City, as other ambulant billboard tees routinely mocked.

Definitely. Definitely.

The bus was too quick for further exchange.

The Albino (July25)

 

Late afternoon on Jalan Sultan the Chinese albino had it about right—a world of horror and nothing else, unable to be endured. Eyes clenched tight, shielding arm raised high and the other feeling his way along the shopfronts. It was torture right enough, the man likely knowing only the half of it. The rain had come down almost without cease the last 48 hours, puffer jacket needed against the aircon in the library and Helen’s big payung, which even so was unable to protect the cuffs of the trousers. There was hardly a squeak of light, yet the poor man was dreadfully assailed. One hundred the number of casualties in the renewed bombing in Gaza according to initial reports, climbing in increments into the 2- 3- & 400s. Zainuddin forwarded a member of the Irish Parliament it must have been, crying out against the inhumanity. For those who did not know such devastations from their own sources, their own race memory, the newreports & photos could be stomached for many, many months more. Years in fact.

Publication news: Attention! - Airplane Reading

 

Hallo all

Another short of mine has just been published in the States, delivering again some aerophobia, with couple other matters intermixed.

Free on the site here—

https://airplanereading.org/story/5131/attention

All best

Pavle